chouan
\ʃwɑ̃\
The verdict
“chouan” is uncommon French (frequency #89,526 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,526
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne les Chouans.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chouan · chouan · French
chouan · rank #89,526 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,526
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chiée
Nearest frequency peer: chiée (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « chouan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chercherez
chercherez
10,478 corpus weight
- chipotle
chipotle
10,477 corpus weight
- chiée
chiée
10,476 corpus weight
- chouan
chouan
10,475 corpus weight
- choyer
choyer
10,474 corpus weight
- chromées
chromées
10,473 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chouan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chouan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃwɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,526 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chouan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chouan is uncommon French at frequency #89,526 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʃwɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui concerne les Chouans.".
No misspelling variants are generated for chouan in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chouan, spelled C-H-O-U-A-N.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne les Chouans.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chouan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous ne savez donc pas qu’il va, tous les ans, passer un mois en Vendée chez la marquise de Rieu… oui, chez la marquise de Rieu, la catholique, la royaliste, la vieille chouanne, comme elle se nomme elle-même.
Deux robes passèrent entre les fûts desquamés des platanes, deux bras nus s'agitèrent et juste à ce moment, pour nous rappeler de quel sang nous étions, une première hulotte poussa son vieux cri chouan.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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